Sentences with phrase «widespread education of child»

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The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

I wrestle with this question in my own classrooms and with my kids, especially these days, living in what Chris Gallagher has called the age of quantification in education: teacher - proof and child - proof classrooms, a widespread sense that if it isn't measurable, it must not be valuable.

«In the UK these barriers include the difficulty some women encounter when breastfeeding in public, widespread misleading marketing that formula is equivalent to breastfeeding, a lack of high quality services to prevent and treat any problems if they arise, a lack of community support, a lack of education about breastfeeding for young children, and lack of support for women to breastfeed in the workplace.

Indeed, it is now possible to make a strong case that parent education programs can lead to better parenting all along the continuum of caretaking effectiveness, thereby achieving widespread gains in child development long sought by researchers and policy makers.

More importantly, as Le Billon so well documented in French Kids Eat Everything, almost every aspect of French food culture, including widespread nutrition education and early «taste training,» supports better school meals, both their provision by schools and their acceptance by children.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Under his leadership of more than 30 years, ASG gained widespread recognition for being one of the largest non-profit friendly societies in Australia, encouraging parents to save for their children's future education.

For instance, to explain the meaning of «to be citizens and economic participants in a democratic society» he says that «there is widespread agreement that an adequate system of education is one that «ensures that a child is equipped to participate in political affairs and compete with his or her peers in the labor market.

Even if our nation's schools are not beset by a widespread shortage of qualified teachers and teachers are paid salaries comparable to other professionals, there are still those who believe that teachers» pay is too low, that their salaries are simply not commensurate with our expectations of a good education for our children.

Providing children with an education and widespread understanding with these areas is imperative to their development and the continued progress of Britain and British business.»

If present evidence is to be used, two potent contributions to raising student achievement will be widespread: effective preschool programs for all children and intensive interventions that build capacities of families to support the education of their children.

Encouraging the Government to launch a public child safety education campaign in the face of a widespread increase in daredevil activities known as «playing chicken», Fay said:

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in poverty.

Perhaps the most visible example of this deterioration is the widespread anger among both education professionals and policymakers over the design and implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act.

The Key's survey gives an insight into the widespread nature of fears over the current funding system, with 68 per cent of respondents calling for a «greater focus» on children with SEND in education policymaking.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

A 2013 Educational Testing Service (ETS) report, Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward, clarifies just how widespread and damaging the condition of poverty is for children.

Amici Curiae point to the widespread ability of sister states to enforce children's constitutional rights to an adequate education without violating the prerogatives of the legislative and executive branches of government.

As Scott D. Pearson of the U.S. Department of Education's charter school program noted in 2010, while «one of the promises of charter schools was they were going to be a source of innovation and be a benefit not only for the children attending charter schools, but [for] all public schools,... [in practice],... the collaboration is not as widespread as we would hope.»

To fulfill the mission of ending discrimination against Florida's most vulnerable citizens, the Children's Rights Unit will engage in widespread advocacy including litigation, collaboration, education and community activism.

Digital technology is widespread, early childhood education is fully funded, and developing children's social - emotional competencies is part of the national education framework.

Although there is widespread agreement that competent parenting is related to better outcomes for children, there is little evidence about what parenting education should consist of, who should provide it, and how it should be delivered.40 Because volunteers came from varied backgrounds with different parenting experiences, they may not have agreed with the messages contained in the parenting curriculum and may have communicated this explicitly or implicitly to the teenager.